| its sovereign ally… logical What is that, “logically”? Who is sovereign, who is ally, who’s imminently attacked? By invading, that denies Ukraine sovereignty. If you mean Russian sovereignty, it’s not the boss of Ukraine, can’t require it be allied. Unless, of course, Ukraine isn’t really its own thing. And that’s what Putin’s essay sets up. > Putin's rant how Ukraine shouldn't be a country I didn't comment on that because I've never heard that. I'd have to read his comments to comment myself. It’s a clever piece, and to purport to be unaware undermines every comment you’ve made. Selectively quoting, the piece argues not that Ukraine is not a country, but that it’s not its own country, has no history standalone, is really more of a greater Russia border land, and makes no cultural or economic sense apart. - Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Historical_Unity_of_Ru... - The Russian state incorporated the city of Kiev and the lands on the left bank of the Dnieper River, including Poltava region, Chernigov region, and Zaporozhye. - These territories were referred to as “Malorossia” (Little Russia). - The name “Ukraine” was used more often in the meaning of the Old Russian word “okraina” (periphery), which is found in written sources from the 12th century, referring to various border territories. - And the word “Ukrainian”, judging by archival documents, originally referred to frontier guards who protected the external borders. - …the idea of Ukrainian people as a nation separate from the Russians started to form and gain ground among the Polish elite and a part of the Malorussian intelligentsia. Since there was no historical basis – and could not have been any, conclusions were substantiated by all sorts of concoctions… - Ukraine and Russia have developed as a single economic system over decades and centuries. - I am confident that true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia. So: It’s not sovereign on its own. It’s not a real country. I’m simply not going to continue to … be told Insofar as that causes you to reject controlled media, consider whether you could turn off US news, stop reading US sites, and instead study journalism, legal opinion, and historically contextualized views on this matter emerging from nations independent of Russia and U.S. both, ideally also outside EU. |